And yet so MANY of our laws are based on Biblical concepts.
Amazing; ain't it!
And yet so MANY of our laws are based on Biblical concepts.
Amazing; ain't it!
And there are some pretty strong and perfectly valid arguments that Communism is based on Biblical concepts, perhaps even more so than any governments of Western Civilization.
And of all the societies and governments discussed in the Old and New Testaments, not a single one of them bore the slightest resemblance to a Constitutional Republican form of government, and not a single one of them would be suitable for a modern civilization.
There is a whole world of difference between "borrowing a few concepts" from the Bible, and "structuring a government based on the Bible" or any other religious basis.
During the development of the US Constitution, there was no shortage of wannabee religious tyrants who wanted to inject their personal congregational dogma into the Constitution, and the framers wisely sent them packing. There is likewise today, no shortage of wannabee religious tyrants who would like to recreate our Constitutional Republic into some kind of religious tyranny based on their narrow-minded method of worship and faith.
Religious tyranny is no more desirable than any other sort, and will be fought against and defeated by freedom-loving patriots just as fervently as any other sort.
There is little doubt that our founders and framers were in fact "religious and moral" people, but they were wise enough to differentiate between their personal religious beliefs (which would NOT provide a unifying foundation across all congregations and faiths), and a unifying Constitutional Republic, with a separate guarantee in the Bill of Rights, of each person's right to worship, or not, as each person sees fit.